"..[I] will now work on the painting 'The bitch in Heat', I have studies of the subject for a long time already. Actually it can better be called 'The fight therefore', because in the composition in the background three large dogs have a furious fight together. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder:) ..[Ik] ga nu werken aan het schilderij 'De loopsche teef' heb daar al lang voorstudies van. Het kan eigenlijk beter 'Het gevecht daarom' heten, daar in de compositie in de achtergrond drie grote honden een grimmig gevecht leveren. — Kruyder in a letter to art-critic , May 1934, in the RKD Archive, The Hague
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Herman Kruyder
Herman Kruyder (Lage Vuursche, 7 June 1881 – Amsterdam, 29 April 1935) was a Dutch painter in the time of dutch Expressionism, who made many paintings of animals and landscape, but always with a lot of imagination. He frequently had his mental breakdowns but recovered, as did his wife, the artist Jo Bouman]
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